9Application of common law and equity

### 9 Application of common law and equity > > (1)  This Act does not affect the operation of a principle or rule of common law or equity in relation to evidence in a proceeding to which this Act applies, except so far as this Act provides otherwise expressly or by necessary intendment. > > > (2)  Without limiting [subsection (1)](#GS9@Gs1@EN) , this Act does not affect the operation of such a principle or rule so far as it relates to any of the following: > > > > > > (a) the admission or use of evidence of reasons for a decision of a member of a jury, or of the deliberations of a member of a jury in relation to such a decision, in a proceeding by way of appeal from a judgment, decree, order or sentence of a court; > > > > > > > (b) the operation of a legal or evidential presumption that is consistent with this Act; > > > > > > > (c) a court's power to dispense with the operation of a rule of evidence or procedure in an interlocutory proceeding.